Cardiologia Croatica, Vol. 9 No. 11-12, 2014.
Original scientific paper
https://doi.org/10.15836/ccar.2014.558
Prevalence of Cardiovascular Risk Factors in the Participants of the Public Health Initiative on the Occasion of the 2014 World Heart Day in Zagreb
Goran Krstačić
; Institute for Cardiovascular Prevention and Rehabilitation, Zagreb, Croatia
Mario Ivanuša
; Institute for Cardiovascular Prevention and Rehabilitation, Zagreb, Croatia
Vedrana Škerk
; Institute for Cardiovascular Prevention and Rehabilitation, Zagreb, Croatia
Abstract
As part of a public health initiative on the occasion of the 2014 World Heart Day, the Croatian Heart House and the City of Zagreb – the City Health Center at the Institute for Cardiovascular Prevention and Rehabilitation in Zagreb – organized preventive cardiovascular examinations for the persons between the ages of 40 and 60 that had not had a cardiac examination before. The goal of this initiative was to detect the traditional risk factors for cardiovascular diseases in the aforementioned group and to report the results of the conducted public initiative. Anthropometric measurements were conducted on all subjects (body weight, height, body mass index), fasting values of serum lipids and glucose were determined, 12-lead ECG was performed, and blood pressure pressure was measured. Following this, the participants were examined by either an internist or a cardiologist. The results were devastating: increased body mass index (BMI) was noted in 2/3 of the patients, as well as the presence of arterial hypertension (AH) in 45%, and hyperlipidemia in 55% patients. Men showed higher prevalence of unregulated AH, and women showed increased BMI. These results emphasize the problem and demonstrate the need for more frequent public health initiatives.
Keywords
risk factors; World Heart Day; Croatia
Hrčak ID:
139451
URI
Publication date:
20.1.2015.
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